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A crowded outdoor scene on a paved interlocking-brick courtyard with palm trees and a wooded hill behind. Several men sit on plastic chairs in the foreground, one in a white shirt and white dhoti with a sacred ash mark on his forehead, the other similarly dressed and seated. A young woman in a white kurta, red leggings and a maroon shawl holds a plate of food, and other devotees in dhotis and casual clothes stand holding plates. A boy in a teal shirt walks through the foreground. The setting resembles the annadhanam distribution at the Karthikai Deepam festival.

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